Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasure of a far more valuable kind remains on Bora Bora; the So-odd children of Bora Bora mothers by unknown Army and Navy fathers. They are healthy, sturdy youngsters, and probably a great deal happier than nine-tenths of the children elsewhere in the world. Whether born in or out of wedlock, no island child ever goes into an orphan asylum. There are no such institutions down here...
Born. To James Mason, 39, romantic villain of British films (The Seventh Veil, Odd Man Out), and Pamela Kellino Mason, 32, novel-writing cinemactress: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Portland (after Portland Hoffa, wife of Radio Comic Fred Allen). Weight...
...would seem that the issue goes beyond that of good taste, that it touches on an appreciation of the timeless nature of truth, without which the life of the mind can have no meaning, and without which the very notion of education would be a rather odd one. When, if ever, Einstein shall have ceased to be a beacon to physicists, physics will have ceased...
...Tones of Authority. On the surface, it was a lazy week, and the 30-odd newsmen assigned to the President sat around fidgeting over the lack of any spot news. In what was intended as a broad hint of their impatience, they staged a mock welcome for Press Secretary Charles Ross and Personal Secretary Matthew Connelly, who arrived to spend a few days with the boss. Sheets, shorts, undershirts and pants were strung across a street on the Navy's Key West submarine base. The Negro girls of Douglass High School, dressed in gym suits, and Walter...
Partial Answer. His own prestige has been matched by a spectacular rise within the hierarchy of the teamsters' international union. His ideas of regional organization, once regarded as odd and unsound, have been freely adopted. Last year touchy old Dan Tobin named him executive vice president of the international union-in effect, second in command...